What is Mental Health?
We often all find ourselves asking some of the following key questions:
- What can I do to find more work satisfaction?
- How can I achieve better work & family life balance?
- How can I deal with severe emotional pain?
- Am I being a good enough parent?
- What can I do to have a better self-image about myself?
- How can I get world-class & professional counseling for my mental health?
- Is my child coping with his exam stress?
All these above questions are connected to equally vital dimensions of your mental health. Mental health has become one of the cornerstones of daily existence in today’s modern world. Some of us are more aware of its presence than others. But the field of mental health has progressed rapidly over the last few decades and today a huge volume of mental health resources is readily available for all of us. We can use them to improve the quality of our mental health in our daily lives.
‘The Mumbai Psychiatrist’ team of experts can guide you with the right counseling and advice for your mental health goals.
Broadly speaking, our mental health is affected by some of the following factors:
- Our personality and attitude to life
- Our upbringing and conditioning
- Our genetic make-up
- Our family history of mental illnesses
- Our daily habits and coping mechanisms for stress
Modern psychological research shows that a lot of these factors are under our influence. With the right training and guidance, many of these can be changed to a degree sufficient enough to impact our mental health in our daily lives.
In fact, scientific research now even illustrates that long-term behavioral changes and lifestyle modifications can have a positive influence on our genetic make-up. If you can identify the cause of your mental health problem, it is possible to develop the right behavioral modifications to deal with them. The right coping mechanisms can be learned through proper guidance and expert advice.
Mental health consists of and is also influenced by the following interdependent components of health:
- Emotional health
- Psychological health
- Social health
- Physical health
- Spiritual health
A sound mental health approach helps you in balancing all the above components for an optimal effect on your overall quality of life – contributing productively to your work, family, relationship and personal spheres of daily life.
Reach out to ‘the Mumbai Psychiatrist’ team, we would like to hear from you.